Oil pan for coiler gears



y 1933- J. E. GUNTER ET AL 1,910,103

OIL PAN FOR COILER GEARS Filed March 8, 1932 INVENTOR ATTOR N EY Patented May 23, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENTT- OFFICE f JAMES E. GUN'IER AND JOHN s'rEwAn'r, or ANDERSON, scorn CAROLINA.

OIL PAN FOR GO-ILER GEARS Application filed March 8,

This invention relates to drip pans for cotton drawing frames or cotton revolving flat cards and has for the primary object, the provision of a device of the above stated character especially adapted to prevent lubricant of the coiler gear from soiling and rendering the cotton sliver unfit for use during its passage through the coiler gear into the sliver container.

Another object of this invention is the provision of a pan having means for securing the same to the coiler gear so as to rotate therewith and collect the Waste lubricant from the coiler gear and thereby prevent the usual lubricant drippings from engaging the sliver.

Vith these and other objects in view, this invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of our invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view illustrating a cotton drawing frame with a drip pan connected to the coiler gear thereof and constructed in accordance with our invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation illustrating the drip pan.

Figure 3 is a top plan view illustrating the same.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 1 indicates a fragmentary portion of a cotton drawing frame having the usual feed rollers 2 for discharging cotton sliver into the chute 3 of a rotating coiler gear 1. The coiler gear 1 is rotated by a pinion 5 meshing with teeth on the periphery thereof and is rotatably supported by a plate 6 on the drawing frame 1 by having a groove 7 receiving a flange 8 formed on the coiler gear. The coiler gear also having a groove 9 receiving a flange 10 on the plate 6. Lubricant is fed into the groove 7 in any suitable manner for the purpose of lubricating the coiler gear during its rotation and by actual experience it has been found that the 1932. Serial No.1 597,575.

lubricant overflows the groove 7 and drips downwardly, being caught by the sliver c'otton within the sliver container 11 thereby ruining or soiling the sliver and rendering the same unfit for use and to'overcome this disadvantage our invention is applied to the coiler gearas shown in Figure 1' and consists of a circular pan-12 having anupstanding marginal flange 13. Stud bolts 14 are carried by the'pan and extend through apertures in the coiler; gear and. receive thereon nuts 15 whereby the pan is supported to the coiler gear and directly under the same forthe purpose of catching the lubricant drippings from the groove 7. Bosses 16 are formed on the pan 12 with the bolts extending therefrom for the purpose of formingstop's to properly position the pan relative to thefcoiler gear and plate 6 of the drawing frame whereby the pan is free to rotate with the coiler gearand will not interfere with the operationof the machine permitting the usual upward movement of the coiler gear by the accumulated sliver within the container 11 for actuating the conventional type of trip lever for stopping the operation of the drawing machine when the container is filled with sliver.

The pan 12 is provided with an opening 17 aligning with the discharge end Ofthechute 13 and is surrounded by a marginal flange 18 terminating .in' close proximity to the discharge end of the chute so that the sliver discharging from the chute may pass through the pan 'withoutcoming'in contact with the lubricant caught therein. It being understood that the sliver passing through the opening'l? enters the container 11 and is placed therein in coiledformation by the ro- 0 tation of the sliver gear.

While we have shown and described the with a cotton drawing frame having a rotating coiler gear for delivering the sliver into a container, and means between the gear and container to catch lubricant dripping from said gear and adapted to permit free passage of the sliver to the container from the coiler gear without soiling -by the lubricant.

2. In combination with a cotton drawing frame having a rotating coiler gear for de livering the sliver into a container, means between the gearand container to catch lubricant dripping from said gear, and means whereby the sliver from said gear may pass through the first named means without coming in contact with the lubricant caught thereby. i

3. In combination with a cottondrawing frame having a rotating coiler gear for delivering thesliver into a container, a drip.

pan secured to said gear and located between the latter and the container for catching lubricant dripping from the gear, and means in said pan to permit sliver to pass therethrough from the gear to the container cant caught by said pan.

5. In combination with a cotton drawing frame having a rotating coiler gear provided with a chute and a container disposed thereunder, a pan carried by said gear between the latter and the container for catching lubricant drippings from the gear and having an opening, and a flange formed on the pan about said opening and aligning with the discharge end of the chute to permit the sliver to pass through the pan without coming in contact with the lubricant caught in the pan.

6. In combination with a cotton drawing frame having a rotating coiler gear provided with a chute and a container disposed thereunder, a pan carried by said gear between the latter and the container for catching lubricant drippings from the gear and having an opening, anda flange formed on the pan about said opening and aligning with the discharge end of the chute to permit the sliver to pass through the pan without coming in contact with the lubricant caught in the pan, said pan of a diameter, greater than the diameter of the gear.

7. In combination with a cotton drawing frame having a rotating coiler gear for'delivering the sliver into a container, a flanged pan located between the gear and the con tures.

JAMES E. GUNTER. JOHN STEWVART. 

